Mental Health at Orange County Churches

If you don’t struggle with mental health, you probably know someone who does. About 20% of Americans experience mental health issues every year.

It’s not the easiest thing to find safe churches that embraces all aspects of a Christian person’s life that affects their mental illness—spiritually, mentally, emotionally, medically, physically, relationally, psychologically. To serve the 6th largest county in the USA, Orange County, California, here are churches where people can get help and hope (please add a comment if you know others):

hope for mental health community

Hope For Mental Health @ Saddleback Church, Lake Forest Campus

East West Community Church, Anaheim

  • NAMI Family Support Group – 2nd and 4th Tuesdays each month – for more info, please contact Wilfred & Neena Paltanwala at wpaltanwala[at]roadrunner.com

Eastside Christian Church, Anaheim

Trinity United Presbyterian Church, Santa Ana

New Hope Crisis Counseling Hotline, Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange

  • New Hope Crisis Hotline provides telephone crisis intervention and suicide prevention services in Orange County. Trained crisis workers provide peer counseling to those who are struggling to cope with day to day life. Services are free, and are available 24 hours a day/7 days a week.
    Call 714-New Hope (714-639-4673)

New Life Irvine

Care & Recovery at Mariners Church, Irvine, California

St. Irenaeus Catholic Church in Cypress


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Support groups help break the mental health taboo in Orange County churches” (KPCC, November 2015)

“Besides St. St. Irenaeus Catholic Church in Cypress, three other Catholic churches in Orange County offer support groups and  several more are opening dialogues about mental health with their congregations in English, Spanish and Vietnamese…”

“The National Alliance on Mental Illness has trained facilitators to lead support groups at a handful of evangelical and Baptist churches in Orange County.”

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NAMI FaithNet is an information exchange network of NAMI members, friends, clergy and congregations of all faith traditions who wish to create more welcoming and supportive faith communities for persons and families touched by serious mental illness. NAMI FaithNet also encourages the role of faith in recovery for those for whom faith is a key component of their experience.

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